So yesterday upon walking out of the WIERD's front door into the world, the rather sadly abject and always eminently empty vacant lot next to my house had an 'Eviction' notice on it...it was truly a perplexing site and I think radically contemporary as one might say... As if this wasn't already enough of a philosophical conundrum to confuse the WIERD for daze, a few hours later at the US Open I learned that a dozen or so major corporations are buying out entire lots of tickets for their employees, nearly all of whom are not showing up due to the intense heat, yet the seats are all sold, and remained 'reserved' - awkwardly sitting alone awaiting a body...so(like the doubly evacuated 'abstraction' of Real estate next to my house) the most highly attended event of public sport in the world is now also left with the cold VRleasures of the contemporary world - everything is sold out, but noone is there...Very Rare.
On that as always delerio-crypto-abymsmalian note of Apocryphial wonder, tonite the battle against abstraction via the pleasures of the flesh and electricity continue at the WIERD weekly party yesss! A few weeks ago we were beyond spolied by when the great British cold guitar master Mark Burgess blew the roof off the fukin place, and tonite we are undoubtedly in for another amazing evening as we welcome absolutely legendary BETTINA KOSTER for a live performance at midnite! Along with the likes of Matthias Schuster, Blixa Bargeld, and Gudrun Gut, since founding her incredible group MALARIA! Bettina has been one of the truly seminal figures in German Post-Punk and Experimental Electronic/Industrial music since the late 70s, and the opportunity to see her perform in such an intimate WIERD World is certainly a rarity. This evening Bettina will be performing a new series of songs from her recently released 'Queen of Noise' LP for your frozen hot pleasure...see you all in the WIERD tonite...VRp.
Anarexia, Max Labor and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday September 1st, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare performance by Bettina Koster at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy
Info:(212)226-5708
The WIERD World VReturns this week after a lovely 2 week hiatus and we're re-energized for a truly Very Rare fall season beginning this Wednesday! From the sounds of the past few months' fantastic live performances by the likes of Automelodi and Solvent its clear we're in the midst of a Canadian Electronic Invasion and this week the cold fast and raw lo-fi sounds from the Mountie-patrolled north continue as we proudly welcome the weekly party debut of COSMETICS from Vancouver, British Columbia for a live performance at midnite! http://www.myspace.com/cosmeticscosmeticscosmetics http://cosmeticscosmeticscosmetics.tumblr.com/
A new WIERD Records Feature is out in WIRE Magazine:
[Aug. 24th post]
See you all in our shady, foggy, echo-laden autumn world of eminently private decadence tomorrow evening!...VRp.
Xavier Paradis, Pre-Op Trans, and Frankie Teardrop spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday August 25th, 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
(Very Rare Live Performance by Cosmetics at Midnite!)
131 Christie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
24 August 2010
A new feature on Wierd Records is out in Wire Magazine. Click the above images to view in full size. Also, click HERE for a free five song Wierd sampler, courtesy of Wire online. A series of photos spanning the label and party's history are available HERE
17 August 2010
Frank(just Frank)
will make their UK live debut with 2 shows in London this
weekend August 20th and 21st!
Sat. Aug. 21st
Black Circle Party at The Drop
Frank(just Frank) Live + DJs
Stoke Newington High St. at Church St./London http://black-circles.blogspot.com/
16 August 2010
Xeno & Oaklander will be performing live this Saturday at the Kunsthalle Zurich 25th Anniversary Party
10 August 2010
As previously mentioned, the weekly Wierd party at Home Sweet Home will be on a two week break, resuming on August 25th. In the interim, please enjoy the latest feature on the label, as published in Germany's OX Magazine. Click on the images to read in full size.
4 August 2010
Tonite will be a very special evening in the WIERD World, as it is my pleasure to welcome the man who's music has long been a true inspiration - and quite simply one of my musical heroes for as long as I, and I know many of you can remember - MARK BURGESS of The Chameleons for a live performance at midnite! For anyone who has ever wondered what it may have been like to see The Chameleons in the viscerally-alive, tiny intimate confines of the likes of Rafters Club in Manchester circa 1982, this is the closest you'll ever get...needless to say a Very Rare evening lies ahead indeed. Doors will open for tonite's show at 10pm, admission is $10, get there early if you want to get in.
Just a last reminder, and after tonite it only seems quite appropriate that WIERD will be taking a much needed 2 week break beginning next week to revive for the fall concert season, and we will return on Wed. August 25th with the Cosmetics from Vancouver live. In our absense however I wanted to encourage you all to support the debut effort of the new Dynamo Collective's innaugural show next Wed. Aug. 11th:
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Dynamo Collective @ The Charleston
Head Trip Conception
If Jesus Had Machine Guns
Transient Sun
w DJs: HiFi Hillary, Niteline
The Charleston
174 Bedford Ave. BKNY
Doors: 9:30 PM/$5
Also for all our British friends Frank(just Frank) will make their live UK debut in London with 2 shows on August 20th and 21st!:
Sat. Aug. 21st
Black Circle Party at The Drop
Frank(just Frank) Live + DJs
Stoke Newington High St. at Church St./London http://black-circles.blogspot.com/
Pieter, Glenn, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD!
(Very Rare Live Performance by Mark Burgess at Midnite!)
Wednesday August 4th, 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey
Info:(212)226-5708
28 July 2010
So this morning the WIERD awakens and the only thing in its IN box was an email from a rather enthusiastic and ambitious young Nigerian guy called Mambooja who was writing to inform me I was the heir to 800 million dollars. Of course as always I promptly hit 'reply' to Mambooja and turns out the email was a 'norely@'address, no viruses, malware, just a simple email...rather brilliant I would say. In fact this may be the ultimate act of abstract art in 2010 - one of truly 'representing' the 'presense of' the internet...almost 'humanizing' it in fact - not in the 'humanistic' sense, but rather in the sense of the 'corporealizing' the big abstract nothing out there as a glowing, ephemeral, personified presense across from you a la Jackson Pollack in '47 with a drunken pleasure-seeking middle finger proudly raised at your sad, sober flesh and bloody ass...laughing and scoffing with frozen cold pleasure as YOU nervously cower in confusion...where did the world go, who are YOU???...Very Rare.
And while YOU're sitting there in all your neurotically isolated emptyness, YOU better get your shit together as YOU are playing tonite at WIERD...get yourself a band, some gear, and send some stupid little emails no one will read if you want any of your so-called 'friends' to show up and watch you suffer under the fog and the lights...its gonna be a good one tonite YOU're new trax are killer and the new album is amazing, even though YOU haven't made IT yet, or did YOU?...The amazing young Blind Prophet is watching, follow her on...see you all this evening.
Sean Ragon(Blind Prophet Records/BK), Xavier Paradis, and Frankie T. Spin the WIERD
Wednesday July 28th, 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Christie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info: (212)226-5708
21 July 2010
Tonite the WIERD World is very happy to welcome back to NYC the amazing AUTOMELODI for a live performance and celebration of the release for their long-awaited debut LP at midnight! For everyone who calls WIERD home you all know this will be a Very Rare evening indeed, hope everyone can make it out! The record came out this past week and we will indeed have both LP and CD copies available at the show. The band's debut video from director Jimi Patterson also premiered this past week via Stereogum.: http://www.myspace.com/automelodi http://stereogum.com/432221/automelodi-schema-corporel-video-stereogum-premiere/video/
Our beloved Xavier and co. will be in town through the weekend and just a reminder this Friday night will be the official record release party for the new album as the band performs at Glasslands in BK with Martial Canterel! This will be a late show - doors at 11pm, bands on at 12 and 1am. The great Mr. Canterel is wrapping up the tracking of his new album as we speak, expect many new gems to be unearthed at this one. For anyone VRunfamiliar, Automelodi's cold guitar masterpiece 'Buanderie Jazz' as well as 2009's WIERD dancefloor-torcher of the year 'Windscreen' from Martial Canterel are now available for free download over at Brooklyn Vegan in honor of Friday's show.: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/07/automelodi_rele.html http://www.myspace.com/martialcanterel http://glasslands.blogspot.com/
Miss Liz, Glenn, Frankie Teardrop and Pieter Spin the Automelodi Record Release Party!
Wednesday July 21st, 10pm-4am!
(Very Rare live performance by Automelodi at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St., NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
14 July 2010
This week's WIERD is dedicated to everyone who has a separate name for their body...and listens to that body...even if it isn't yours...VR.
Speaking of the potential for parenthetical corporeal articulation tonite the body electronic is laid bare to the Very Rare as WIERD welcomes the weekly party debut of NEUD PHOTO for a live performance of minimal electronic music at midnight! The band just released their debut 12" EP we again have been spinning VRelentlessly the past couple weeks! http://www.myspace.com/neudphoto
I must say the performances the past few weeks have been quite excellent and Jimi's videological images are now up for your pleasure, please have a look...a lot of amazing new music coming out of the deep south indeed...enjoy the cold sounds:
Lastly next week as you all know Automelodi will be in town for the long-awaited release of their debut LP, and the following Wed. we will be hosting the YOU record release party, and for the last show of the summer the great Mark Burgess will be taking the WIERD World stage(!!!)...For the following two weeks the WIERD will be taking a much needed 2 week vacation to recover and VRelax and gear up for the autumn season, and we will return on Wednesday August 25th as Cosmetics are in town from Vancouver for their NYC debut in the WIERD World...so mark you calendars after King Mark blesses us all with his brilliance... :)
PIeter, Anarexia and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday July 16th, 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
7 July 2010
For everyone who thought the cold world sounds of icy minimal electronics could never penetrate the deep south of the US, tonight WIERD is proud to prove you all VRong as we welcome KINDEST LINES from the absolute darkly warm, pleasure-seeking heart of the world New Orleans, LA for their debut NYC live performance at midnight! The band has just released their fantastic debut EP on Bridgetown Records I highly encourage everyone to pick up a copy of, its been spinning nonstop at the party the past 2 months your barely hangin-on short term memory will VRemind you the sec you throw it on...these songs by Mr. Jack Champagne and co. are truly private, fragile and sparkling with carefully handmade care which fans of the likes of Nine Circles, Bal Pare, Kate Bush, Xmal Deutschland and the like will find a very rare new obsession in this evening, and rightly so...see you all in the Wierd World! http://www.myspace.com/kindestlines
Glenn, Mark Splatter(Berlin), and Frankie Teardrop Spin Coldwaves for Girls!
Wednesday July 7th 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Kindest Lines at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St.at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
30 June 2010
Alright the coldly sparkling guitars are making a long overdue return tonite as the WIERD World welcomes the weekly party debut of Brooklyn's MINKS for a live performance at midnight! The band just released their excellent 1st 7" single 'Funeral Song' b/w 'Kusmi' on Captured Trax and are wrapping up their debut LP due out in the early fall...fans of Asylum Party, Lucy Show, early Cure, Ride etc. will feel the chills indeed! http://www.myspace.com/iamwitchcraft http://stereogum.com/408021/band-to-watch-minks/franchises/band-to-watch/
And for all of you looking for a bit of late afternoon VRentertainment, the WIERD's latest thoughts on the cold wave world are up over at the Quietus in London, pay this truly great site a visit, I do it every day - countles fantastic features to read and electrify your tired mind and home to much of the best writing on new music out there: http://thequietus.com/articles/04529-cold-wave-and-minimal-electronics-feature-pieter-wierd-joe-angular
Pieter, Samuel kK, and Pre-Op Trans Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday June 30th 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
23 June 2010
Well after that inTENSE Texas Tornado blew through the WIERD World last week seems safe to say heat-seeking hedonistic summer pleasure is the theme of the moment, and tonite it undoubtedly continues as we're proud to welcome back our forever beloved heroes of the dark and dirty, psychedelic electronic night LED ER EST for a live performance at midnight! The young alien gentlemen from the planet of Orange just released a killer new split LP on the always excellent Mannequin Records label in Rome, Italy and will be debuting these new trax for the first time including the neon beaming floor-torcher 'Lonesome XOXO' as well as those off their Captured trax 7" including the icily brittle tear-jerker 'Man and Tree'...The CT7 trax appear on the new CD version of 'Dust On Common' just out on the WIERD and we have a ton of copies of the new Italian LP just in, should be up on the wierdsite few dazzze...so come on down to our lovely little echo chamber tonite where the ('world') remains forever in parentheses thank god, and hearem all alive in the flesh, yesss...VR. http://www.myspace.com/lederest
I'm happy to say the 2nd Automelodi 'Wierd Presents:' show next month is now set for Friday evening July 23rd at Glasslands in the BK, where the band will be supporting Martial Canterel, as well as a night long frozen hot danceparty to follow with DJs Mike Sniper of Blank Dogs and Ms. Katie Rose of Further Reductions!...needless to say Monsieur Paradis and co. sightings in NYC are a Very Rarity indeed, and this new LP due out July 13th is quite an amazingly fragile monster of truly refined electronic craftsmanship, can't wait to play it for the world! http://www.myspace.com/automelodi http://www.myspace.com/martialcanterel http://www.glasslands.com/
And just 2 weeks to go until the 2nd new WIERD release 'The Brutal Wave' by Frank(justFrank) enters into the mysterious airwaves of spatio-temporal abstraction! The debut single 'Couer Hanté' is now available for free download over at Stereogum along with a nice introductory piece on the band by Brandon Stosuy: http://stereogum.com/414572/band-to-watch-frank-just-frank/franchises/band-to-watch/
Glenn, Jordan, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday, June 23rd 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Led Er Est at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
16 June 2010
Well it was only a matter of time til the frail gods of minimal electronics took a lovely little tea break to make way for the return of the repressed - and the wild WIERD winds of the sounds of EBM's past reared their virile heads and came back to VRome Sweet Home...and indeed tonite we're inordinately pleased to finally welcome the weekly party debut of TENSE from the dusty cold plains of Houston, Texas for a live performance of heat seeking Electronic Body Music at midnight! Many of you saw Mariana tear the place up with her minimal synth project Medio Mutante last month, so won't you all please join us this evening to have a naughty little look at the dark and dirty flipside of the same Wax Trax-encrusted coin as she is joined on stage by bandmates Robert and Jake Shrock to bring the nastily fierce testerone fueled leather-manly pleasures! Tense's debut on Disaro Records will be available at the show, and please visit their site to check out the killer new videos. Also joining us tonite will be the ever-lovely long-standing cold queen of New England Jeralyn from Boston and our good friend Justin from the excellent new 'Nachtmusik' Party in San Francisco. Ms. J's 'I'll Wear Any Color As Long as its Black' blog has long been a Wierd in-house fave, please pay her a visit and Justin is in town for the big Veil Veil Vanish show tomorrow night with Revel Hotel at Coco 66...needless to say, tonite's undoubtedly gonna be a fantastically icy mess for the VRecord books...Come on in and take it all in-TENSE like the hungry young man you always wished you were yeahhhhh! http://www.myspace.com/tensexxx http://illwearanycoloraslongasitsblack.com/ http://www.facebook.com/NACHTMUSIKSF
And if that weren't enough...please arrive early tonite as filmmakers Jeff Elstone and Jonathan Nanberg will be debuting the two new BLACKLIST music videos for 'Shock in the Hotel Falcon' and 'The Believer' at 11:30pm sharp! This will be the premier of 'Shock', and only because it premiered earlier this week on AOL's Spinner site here is 'The Believer' for your afternoon's deserved cubicular escape :) http://www.spinner.com/2010/06/10/blacklist-the-believer-video?icid=sphere_searchsphere_web
A few exciting shows coming up next month to announce - I'm happy to say Automelodi will be coming to town for their long-awaited debut self-titled LP record release party at WIERD Wednesday July 21st! To maximize the Very Rarity of the Franco-Froidetastic takeover week we'll also be doing a new installment of the 'WIERD Presents:' Live series that following weekend in BK, more details on this one soon. Also just announced on Friday July 2nd Xeno & Oaklander will play the Highline Ballroom with Glass Candy, tix just went on sale for this show here: http://www.highlineballroom.com/bio.php?id=1523
A new 4 page feature on the WIERD is out in the latest issue of D-Side Magazine from France and we now have it up in its entirety on the website below (June 1st).
Pieter, Veryrarealyn, and Justin Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday June 16th, 10pm-4am
(VR Live Performance by TENSE at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St.at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
9 June 2010
Tonite WIERD proudly welcomes SOLVENT from dark synth Toronto for a live performance of minimal electronic music at midnight! Finally this gig is goin down as we've tried to get the great Jason Amm several times over the past few years and our not so Very Rare neighbors to the mountie-VRatrolled North certainly don't make it easy for Canadian artists to spread the cold sounds. Needless to say tonite will be quite special indeed as Jason will be debuting a whole new set of trax off his first new LP in 6 years 'Subject to Shift' out on the Ghostly International label, and what a record it is. Intensely coagulating the many and varying traditions of late EBM and industrial early acid techno and classic minimal synth, 'Subject' is the darkest Solvent effort yet, can't wait to hear these songs live! Andrew P. just sent over a great interview with Jason just up over at Self-Titled check it out below. Really hope everyone can make it out for this one god knows when we'll be fortunate enough to get our faces shredded and internally cleansed and wiped blank by the wild winds of Ontario again...VR.
Solvent Interview: http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2010/06/09/the-self-titled-interview-solvent/ http://www.myspace.com/solventcity
I'm very happy to say the cover art and tracklists are now up on the site for the next two Wierd Records releases - the debut albums from our long time friends Frank(just Frank) from France and Automelodi from Montreal due for release July 6th and 13th respectively. These two records have been a long time coming, can't wait to play them for the world next month! A few new trax streaming over at the bands sites as well so please pay them a 'visit': http://www.wierdrecords.com/store/index.php?cPath=22
In other rather sad news of the WIERD I wanted to ask you all to take a moment of silence (Silence on-line is my new fave thing, btw...VR) for our beloved WIERD family fog machine MISTY who some of you may have noticed passed away into the ether at long last last Wed. at precisely 11:36 pm. I am also truly sorry to make you all see each other in the WIERD World for the last 4 hours of the party...horrible, I swear on the froide gods abstract graves I promise it will never happen again, WIERD is NOT reality, none of you really exist and this is all a dream you never wanted to have really I swear...and yes its still goin rest assured...so until I finish my long awaited architectuo-historical manifesto on the VRadical relationship between fog machines and the internal conceptual dissolution of all architecture itself, the memory of 'the real' setting it last week will simply plague you all forever...Rest assured however everyone, Misty's eminently virile younger sister arrived from Northern France yesterday and shes ready for pleasure tonite. Unlike Misty rumours have it she's ravenously heterosexual, but with the monstrous pressures inherent in my bringing her out of the closet each and every week I have a feeling that may be quite a lot to handle for someone her age, so we'll see how she does this evening...then again she will be doing quite a bit of 'blowing' so uh hmmm, complicated so that means she...where are my brilliant queer theory VRiends when I need them help(!)...alas and a loss for words as always...RIP language yesss, long live the brouillard definitif!!!
Katie Rose, Shawn NoEQ, and Frankie T. Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday June 9th, 10pm-4am
(Beyond Very Rare Live Performance by SOLVENT at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St.at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
2 June 2010
Alright WIERDos listen up! Tonite is her VRexxxcellency Pre-Op Trans's Birthday and I promised her she could have whatever the fuck she wanted this year no questions asked. Unfortunately all of NYC is sold out of those tiny fluffy pink cupcakes she likes, so her second choice was GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERY FOR EVERYONE live at the party...doesn't seem so much to ask right, everyone cool with that? Obviously it goes without saying theres only one master who can manhandle the pleasures of a sonic assault of such VRagnitude, so we're bringin in the man himself Mr. Martial Canterel tonite for a live performance of mass genital panic at midnite! Get there early, and check your panties and chastity belts at the door. And just to confirm yes duct tape will be provided by Ms. Shadow for your wrists and face...how wonderful everyone will awaken to face a lovely 'new world' tomorrow, oooh excellent!...VR. http://www.myspace.com/martialcanterel
Speaking of excellent, its that special time of the year when the French Open rolls into its last week today on the wild, fertile colluseum of forever-restrained masculine virulence that is Roland Garros, so let me just remind you all Wierd Records mail order will return to normal next Monday, after Rafa rises back to the fantastic thrown of Spanish power! http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/index.html
In other news of the WIERD, a new mix I am quite happy with I must say is up over at the great Self-Titled Magazine website. This is a collection of what might be perhaps be considered a B-Sides compilation companion to the recently releases 'Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics' collection on Angular, call it 'Warm Waves and Maximal Electronics' perhaps...when the bpms slow down an entirely new world opens up, enjoy its neverending psychedelic vistas all day long...Extra thanks to Andrew Parks and co. for their continued interest in the Wierd World.: http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2010/06/01/needle-exchange-022-an-exclusive-mix-by-wierd-records/#more-8919
A great new live video of last week's killer Medio Mutante show is online courtesy of Jimi Patterson:
http://www.vimeo.com/12079303
To all our Frenchie Canadian VRiends Xeno & Oaklander will be heading up north to join the likes of Automelodi, Pink Noise, the No Fun crew and many more next weekend on stage at the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival in Montreal! X&O and Automelodi play Friday evening June 11th: http://www.casadelpopolo.com/suoniperilpopolo/
Pieter, Pre-Op Trans, and ANAREXIA! Spin the WIERD World...
Wednesday, June 2nd, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Martial Canterel at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
1 June 2010
A new 4 page feature on Wierd Records has just been published in D-Side Magazine. Click above to view the entire article (PDF file, French text).
Tonite Wierd welcomes the weekly party debut of Medio Mutante from Texas for a live performance at midnight! Mariana, Seth and José are part of a slowly growing great new dusty synth/wave scene thats been festering up down in frozen hot Houston for quite some time that includes the likes of Tense, Twisted Wires and Indian Jewelry and MM shows in NYC are certainly a rarity indeed. Unlike few other new, young bands MM tap into the Very Rare sound of classic Spanish minimal electronics from the likes of the greats Aviador Dro, Liaisons Dangereuses, Los Iniciados, or Oviformia Sci and have a killer, cold aggressive sound quite their own at the moment! Also tonite Mr. Canterel makes a long-overdue drive-by-WIERDing in the jag for one of his high-end-heavy-lo-fi-fuck-all DJ sets...doesn't get any dark and lusty than this. So don't forget your body this evening as its its gonna feel the punishing pummel of pleasure for sure...see you all in the WIERD World! http://www.myspace.com/mediomutante
Martial Canterel, Pre-Op Trans and Pieter Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday, May 26th 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Medio Mutante at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
19 May 2010
This evening's WIERD is for everyone who has seriously considered the obvious fact that the unzipped fly is the new male cleavage for the 21st century. 'That being said'(BTW this is my VRave new abstracto-condescendio on-line 'expression' presupposing you're simply not capable of reading what 'was just said' half a fuking inch above this...)...obviously the unzipped female fly is the new......oh wait actually I have to think about this...wait double-cleavage negates itself and thus it...uhg man!...calm down deep breath...more next week...VR.
Speaking of 'Unzipping' as allegorical gender-transference though, and on a more serious note - tonite's WIERD will be a truly Very Rare evening indeed as we once again put aside the cold synthetic sounds for a new installment of the 'Wierd Presents:' new performance art series live on stage! This evening WIERD is proud to present the VRorld premier of a new piece entitled "The s-eXXXorcist" by XXPLXT ANGYL and the Sickness! Perhaps something I can only imagine as a gender-dysphoric lovechild of Chris Burden and Marina Abramovic or better yet Sir Grace Jones magically implanted with the Vaginally-Dentatanated ego of George's Bush turned against itself, The explosive Antino Angel has been elusively lurking in the shadows of the party the past few weeks, crucifix-adorned, razor-sharp double dong in hand...gathering energy...and ready to strike...himself! This evening's auto-erotically sacrilegious, post-feminist('literally' in this case for once...VR) piece will present the young Angel's body as an eminently fertile battlefield in which the various warring factions have it out once and for all, and Antino's internal spokeswoman has asked the WIERD to inform you all that it has indeed been decided that the loser will receive the appropriate punishment. Two trailers for the piece are available courtesy of filmmaker Jeff Elstone...This will be a WIERD you will not forget. :
Xeno & Oaklander are working with film makers Thomas Torrescordova and Tova Carlin in conjunction with Kickstarter, a fundraising platform, to attempt to raise money for the production of a new music video for the song 'Saracen' off of their debut album 'Sentinelle'. Please watch the trailer below and kindly consider a donation to this project, instructions to donate are in the same link. Your generosity will be rewarded with a range of VRleasures ranging from a limited edition signed print to a personalized afternoon ride in the Jaguar solo with Sean and Liz DJing for you. The platform requires that X&O must raise the budget in just 30 days, by June 14th, in order to receive the funds. Thank you in advance to anyone who may consider helping us all with hopefully realizing this ambitious project and continuing construction of the the world of Xanten! : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/138796981/saracen-a-music-video-for-xeno-and-oaklander
A roundup of the Xeno & Oaklander shows in CA last week is up courtesy of the LA Weekly: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/last-night/xeno-and-oaklander-echo/
This Saturday and Sunday Led Er Est, X&O, Figure Study and many more WIERD irVRegulars will take the stage at the Knitting Factory for Todd Pendu's third annual 'Ney York Eye and Ear Festival'. Tickets are still available for both days, more info and a list of set times are online at http://www.pendu.org/. Doors at 3pm both days, please come out and support one of the last spirited great festivals left in NYC!
PIeter, Frankie Teardrop, and ANAREXIA! Spin the Wierd World!
Wednesday, May 19th 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Performance by XXPLXT ANGYL and the Sickness at midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
14 May 2010
Xeno & Oaklander are working with film makers Thomas Torrescordova and Tova Carlin in conjunction with
Kickstarter, a fundraising platform, to attempt to raise money for the
production of a new music video for the song 'Saracen' off of their debut
album 'Sentinelle'. Please watch the trailer above and kindly consider a
donation to this project. The platform requires that Sean and
Liz raise the funds to meet the budget in 30 days, by June 14th,
in order to receive the funds.
ID Magazine has just published an interview with Angular's Joe Daniels, discussing Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol. 1. Click the image above to view in full.
Dazed and Confused has also published their Cold Waves feature on the web. Click the image above to view in full.
13 May 2010
Xeno & Oaklander and Epee du Bois will be playing two west coast shows this weekend:
Saturday May 15th
Xeno & Oaklander, Epee Du Bois, and The Soft Moon
with DJs Omar, Justin, and Josh
Milk Bar
1840 Haight St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
Sunday May 16th
Xeno & Oaklander, Epee Du Bois, and Frank Apline
with Part Time Punks DJs
The Echo
1822 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
12 May 2010
Tonite WIERD welcomes the weekly party debut of BLANK DOGS for a live performance at midnight! The great Mr. Sniper has long been a generous supporter of the WIERD World, and tonite should be quite a Very Rarity indeed, as I'm told by the man himself, whos lo-fi electronic sound has inspired countless Brooklyn bands the past couple years, that his new songs have changed a bit in frozen hot elevation, and tonite he'll be debuting a whole new set of trax off the new BD album...so slide on in on the lovely spring ice...and watch the Lo-Fi get HIGH! yeaaah...VR.
Samuel kK, Miz Margo, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday, May 12th 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by BLANK DOGS at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
5 May 2010
Tonite WIERD welcomes the newest of the new wave of Brooklyn minimal electronic bands KONNICHIWA for a live performance at midnight! As with so many of the great new synthy wave groups to recently grace the WIERD stage Kaela and K.D.'s trax summon up countless competing influences both past and present ranging from Chris and Cosey to Kate Bush to early YMO to some of the more recent west coast chillwave groups. Also this evening should be VRarticularly rare as it is our beloved Queen Mother of the frozen cold gender-dysphoric world ANAREXIA's birthday!!! Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est are back in NYC after their whirlwind 3 week European tour and have quite a few VR stories to tell, so come on down this evening and welcome our heroes home! http://www.myspace.com/konnichiwatheband
The release dates for the next two WIERD Records - the 'The Brutal Wave' LP by Frank(just Frank) and the self-titled debut LP from Automelodi are now set for June 15th. Both releases will be available in LP and CD formats, we will have the cover art and soundclips up on the website in the next week for your Vague Froidetastic pleasure! http://www.myspace.com/frankjustfrank http://www.myspace.com/automelodi
Shawn NoEQ, Jordan, and Anarexia! Spin the Wild WIERD World!
Wednesday, May 5th 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Konnichiwa at midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
28 April 2010
Some of you diehard WIERDos may have noticed the past few weeks we've been introducing a whole new group of young bands to the weekly party arsenal with the great recent performances by Throat, Tearist, Claps, and Figure Study, and another great new group Konnichiwa debuting next week. And tonite we will be introducing DREAM AFFAIR - the new synthwave project from Hayden Payne, formerly of Void Vision. Like Frank(just Frank), Dream Affair is composed of guitar, bass, and drum machine - that Very Rare briskly icy combination of classic cold guitar wave and modern minimal electronics! http://www.myspace.com/dreamaffair
The WIERD European Tour wraps up tonite with Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est Live at Kollatino Underground in Rome, Italy! The bands will be back Friday evening, and next week's party with Konnichiwa live and Shawn NoEQ of Led Er Est and Jordan Levine spinning will be a VRomecoming party of sorts. In other news from the live front Frank(just Frank) will be playing their first live show in the UK in over 6 months this Friday evening at Cafe OTO in London as a part of an all French Wave showcase presented by Rockfort.com. Lastly The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco has invited Xeno & Oaklander and Epee du Bois to be the featured artists performing live at the Museum's 75th anniversary gala celebration Friday evening May 14th. Following this concert both bands will play an additional show at Milk Bar in San Francisco on May 15th, and make their way down to Los Angeles to perform at the Part Time Punks Party with our VRiend the great Frank Alpine on May 16th! Details on all these events on the band's sites below; http://www.sfmoma.org/pages/birthdayparty http://www.myspace.com/xenoandoaklander http://www.myspace.com/frankjustfrank
Frankie Teardrop, Glenn, and Pre-Op Trans Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday, April 28th 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Dream Affair at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
21 April 2010
Alright everyone(forget the VR fact that sound can never literally exist IN extension and) 'listen UP', as tonites definitely going to be an absolute dark and dirty oldschool WIERD mess as we're inordinately excited to welcome THROAT for their weekly party debut live performance at midnight! Throat is the brand new dark synth supergroup cuhgmposed of the every lovely teen queen of the NYC death industrial scene Ms. Margaret Chardiet aka Pharmakon and his young, elusive VRajesty M. Ryan Woodhall of the ever pissed and furious Yellow Tears! If you tragically missed out on the likes of a copy of Pharmakon's long sold out terrifying debut on Bloodlust last year, or the recent Yellow Tears show two weeks ago at the Whitney Museum, stumble on down tonite and get punished with analogue electronic pleasure for your beloved naivete, and get a little key to the gateway that is the Far Rockaway, Queen's crews' killer venue 'Red Light District', which is nearly single handedly keeing the NYC noise scene alive in 2010. Take it from this old grumpy bitch whose been around the block too many times in that world, the trax and line-ups coming out of this cold kingdom of late are clearly on the way to approaching the legendary status only a few other US industrial scenes post 2000 have achieved such as Ryan Jenck's great Terminal in Oakland, CA and the pathos-fueld sleazy grandma in heat of them all - the great Greh Holger's Behind the Green Door Club in Detroit. Needless to say head for the red before we're all dead! http://www.yellowtears.com/ http://www.myspace.com/noisepharmakon
tonite the WIERD European Tour 2010 rolls into Brussels, Belgium tonight for the 'KRAAK Presents:' party at De Bunker! Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est will then play a few shows in Deutschland(including a stop at the longest running minimal synth party in Europe the great Michael Plastikmann's Neon Welt Party at Zwischenfall in Bochum next Sat. 4/24), then into the Czech Republic and a last leg of 3 shows in Italy accompanied by the Italian Cold Wave king himself Alessandro Adriani on the Wheels of the WIERD! Tourdates are up on the website(April 7th). http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27459080587&v=info
Also newly posted on the site's news page (April 20th) is the newest of the WIERD Records authored essays entitled 'Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics' that appears inside the 2 x LP gatefold and CD insert booklet of the just released 'Wierd Presents:' historical compilation on Angular Records in London. For those about to traverse the cold planes of Russian cyberspace, the Gods of Abstraction salute you!: http://www.wierdrecords.com/news/index.htm
We should have release dates up for the next two Wierd Records releases in the next week by Frank(just Frank) and Automelodi. Until then the first FjF interview with Anthem from the recent Wierd Party in Rome 2 weeks ago courtesy of the mysterious Lou Chano from the Post-Romantic Observer!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrSphUhR8N8
For anyone looking for a fantastic new mix for your lonely cubicular afternoon's Wierdness, WIERD's own Frankie Teardrop just curated a great new mix for Zaptown Magazine, some amazing trax here kids, new and old, including a brand new uptempo jewel from Led Er Est entitled 'Lonesome Xoxo' off their just released new split LP with Ancien Regime on Mannequin: http://www.zaptownmag.com/2010/04/i-met-the-beast-episode-2
WIERD will be heading out for a lovely little weekend of Bloodyminded fun in Chicago, followed by a stop at the Heavy Focus Festival in Minneapolis at Club Med on Saturday evening, hope everyone can come on down, say hi as we all 'unsubscribe' to the world...and thus be...VR! http://www.myspace.com/heavyfocus
Frankie Teadrop, Anarexia, and Katie Rose Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday, April 21st 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Throat at Midnight!)
WIERD Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St, at Delancey, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
20 April 2010
Click the image above to read the Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol. 1 compilation essay.
The Xeno & Oaklander/Led Er Est 2010 European Tour is officially underway, beginning last night where both bands played to a packed house at the 'Upset the Rhythm Party' at Bardens Boudoir in London! Following on the heels of last months shows in France and Holland, the tour continues tonight at the Cowley Club in Brighton and on for the next 3 weeks through Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, and ends in Italy! A complete list of cities and venues are up on the official tour poster on the website courtesy of Jordan Levine
Tonite WIERD welcomes the long-overdue return of FIGURE STUDY to the weekly party for a live performance at midnight! April and Nathan are well underway with recording their debut EP and tell me to expect a whole new set of trax at tonight's show. In addition we will be graced by the Very Rare presence of none other than the Belgian Cold Wave king himself guest DJ Aimé le Chevalier aka Lieven de Ridder from Antwerp who will be spinning a selection of trax from all of the upcoming releases on his new Walhalla Records label! Walhalla will be dedicated to releasing the Belgian Cold Wave classics resurrected from Lieven's massively obscure cassette tape library, VRindeed! Also joining us this evening will be Josh Cheon from the Dark Entries label in San Francisco who was recently here to spin for for the Death Domain show a few months back, and will be spinning a selection of songs from his upcoming label releases! http://www.myspace.com/figurestudy http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/ http://www.walhallarecords.be/ (site under contstruction will be up and running soon)
A piece on Lieven's Walhalla Record store and label here: http://www.antwerpsegilde.be/rudy2108.html
The Led Er Est debut LP Dust On Common is now available on CD with two bonus trax, and comes with a bonus 11" x 18" fold out poster! And the Wierd Compilation (3 x LP, 7", 32 page book) as well as Martial Canterel's Refuge Underneath are both back in stock. All will available in the Wierd shop by the end of the day today: http://www.wierdrecords.com/store/index.php?cPath=22
A new feature on the 'Wierd Present: Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics, Vol. I' featuring a head to head between the WIERD and Joe Daniel from Angular Records is out in the new Dazed and confused print edition that hits news stands today, we have it up to read on the website(April 7th)
Lastly I'd like to leave you by saying this week's WIERD is officially dedicated to everyone under 21 who is nostalgic for the 80s...OK everyone go talk amonst yourselves and we will all reconvene to discuss this beyond apocryphal notion next week, its simply far too complicated to deal with right now...See you all on tour or tonite in the WIERD World :)
VRp.
Pieter, Aimé le Chevalier, and Josh Cheon Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday, April 14th 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Figure Study at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
7 April 2010
The full schedule for the Xeno and Oaklander/Led Er Est European tour has been announced. Click above for a full screenshot.
13.04 London, UK @ Bardens Boudoir
14.04 Brighton, UK @ Cowley Club
15.04 Glasgow, UK @ Nice N Sleazys
18.04 Dublin, Ireland @ Whelans
19.04 Nottingham, UK @ Spanky van Dykes
20.04 London, UK @ Brixton Windmill
21.04 Brussels, Belgium @ Le Bunker
22.04 Berlin, Germany @ Bang Bang Club
23.04 Prague, Czech Republic @ Club Final
24.04 Bochum, Germany @ Zwischenfall
26.04 Milan, Italy @ Ligera
27.04 Naples, Italy @ MMB
28.04 Rome, Italy @ Kollatino Underground
A new feature on the upcoming Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics compilation appears in Dazed and Confused.
Click above for a full screenshot.
7 April 2010
This weeks WIERD is in honor of everyone who enjoys troubleshooting' when there is nothing wrong...also known to those of us who enjoy the hobbyistic pleasures of 'A-Mature' psychoanalysis 101...pathos. Or perhaps more luxuriously...sucking ones thumb...ahhh... :)
And speaking of the Very Rare pleasures of the famously underaVReciated thumb, the phonetico-corporeal articulation of tonite's performers simply could not occur without one - as WIERD is proud to present the NYC live debut of CLAPS from Minneapolis for a live performance at midnight!!! Along with the likes of YOU and Moon Patrol, Claps are one of the best new minimal synth bands from the frozen, dusty ice planes of the midwest and evidence the analog electronic infection is slowly seeping west. I highly encourage everyone to check out their fantastic debut CDep just released on the Guilt Ridden Pop label, we have copies available in the WIERDshop, and the band will have them for sale this evening, their trax 'Fold' and 'Fireworks' are 2 of the best of 2010 thus far, come on down to hear them alive and colder than ever tonite! www.myspace.com/clapsus
Otherwise this past I was happy to receive word Home Sweet Home will officially be getting a major facelift and a proper new soundsystem installed at long last. The club is midway through the transition over to the new PA tonite which will be up and on fire in 2 weeks.
Lastly and very importantly many of you may have heard the great Market Hotel was sadly shut down this past weekend and in the interim, Friday evening's 'Wierd Presents:' show featuring live performances by Xeno & Oaklander, Led Er Est, Claps, and Epee du Bois has been moved to Monster Island in Williamsburg(128 River St. at Metropolitan Ave.). This will be a sendoff party for X&O and LeEst who will both be off on a 3 week European tour beginning next Tuesday in London and finishing 3 weeks later in Rome, hope everyone can make it out to wish them well on the VRourney ahead. This is the first full-scale WIERD tour, many years in the making...needless to say...VR.
Pieter, Anarexia, and Miz Margo spin the Quiet Intricacies of the One-Handed Clap...
Wednesday, April 7th 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
Friday evening's 'Wierd Presents:' show has been moved to Monster Island, 128 River St. at Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg. Set times and cover charge are the same. Hope everyone can make it out for this one!
31 March 2010
Tonite WIERD welcomes our long time ever-supportive allies in Leipzig, Germany MONOZID for their first ever live performance in NYC at midnight! Max, Ralf, and Franz have been keeping the dark indie wave scene alive and well via the excellent community they have built in eastern Germany through the many parties associated with their great Transmission fanzine, and are part of an entire new wave of European groups along with the likes Frank(just Frank), Soviet Soviet, Varsovie, and Moldig who are melding the classic sounds of the early Vague Froide and Neue Deutsche Welle bands on the continent with that of the new indie bands in Brooklyn and London...needless to say tonite will your only Very Rare chance to catch the guys in NYC for some time to come...VR.
http://www.myspace.com/monozid
Many exciting WIERD-VRelated events this past week, all have been linked up on the website, a few highlights:
The Guardian in London aired a 30 minute radio program covering the just released 'Wierd Presents:' historical compilation featuring interviews with Joe Daniel of Angular Records and the great Lidia Fiala of legendary Dutch minimal electronic pioneers NINE CIRCLES! This was the first 'on air' words from Lidia in nearly 30 years, highly encouraged listening: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/audio/2010/mar/24/music-weekly-cold-wave
Thanks to everyone who came out for the London launch party last Friday, a reminder to all our Italian friends the official IT release party will be this Friday evening at Locanda Atlantide in Rome featuring live performances by WIERD's own Frank(just Frank) and Rometown heros Soviet Soviet, and our beloved forever-high minimal electronic modernist master Alessandro Adriani of Mannequin Records spinning the night away...On the heels of his incredible 'Danza Meccanica' Compilation Alessandro has just put the finishing touches on the forthcoming Led Er Est/Ancien Regime split LP that will be out in time for the Xeno & Oaklander/Led Er Est tour shows in Italy next month! More details on this one up on the website(scroll to Feb 12th).
Lastly our long-supportive VRiends at the great Skug Journal für Musik in Vienna have published a very comprehensive WIERD Records interview that just went up on the Skug site and the print version will be on newstands all over DE, AT, and FR in a few weeks: http://www.skug.at/index.php?Art_ID=4863
Pieter and Frankie Spin the Socially Surrealistic Sensations of the Leipzig School!
Wednesday, March 31st 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Monozid at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
A new feature on Wierd Records, featuring interviews with Liz Wendelbo, Sean McBride, and Pieter Schoolwerth, has just been published via Skug für Musik, Vienna: http://www.skug.at/index.php?Art_ID=4863
24 March 2010
Tonite WIERD welcomes the weekly party debut by TEARIST for a live performance at midnite! The newest in a recent wave of LA minimal synth bands to take over the WIERD World, Yasmine and Will join the eminently electrified and evergetic ranks of killer male-female duos to recently grace the party stage such as Further Reductions, Light Asylum, Zola Jesus, and Void Vision, and if their whirlwind performance on day one of last November's Wierd Festival in Los Angeles was any indication, tonite they certainly will be bringin the cold, Tearifyingly anarchic sounds!
http://www.myspace.com/teariststst
The WIERD shop has been reloaded with a series of highly VRecommended new releases including the excellent second compilation from our allies at the La Forme Lente label in France entitled 'Circuit D'Actes' that is a great introduction to the new French minimal electronic scene, the debut EP from Claps from Minneapolis who wil be making their NYC debut at WIERD in 2 weeks following next week's East German takeover, and the long-awaited debut EP from NYC's own Revel Hotel, featuring the WIERD's own Frankie Teardrop!
http://www.wierdrecords.com/store/index.php?cPath=24
Lastly this evening our beloved elusive playboy to the Froidetastic Quebeqouis north Xavier Paradis of Automelodi will be making his guest DJ debut at the party and in Brooklyn for the week as we begin mixing Automelodi's debut LP due out on the label in June! He'll be spinning a whole new set of never before heard trax by the band for the first time, a new set of trax from the current Montreal scene as well as many of his carefully selected classic Frenchiewave faves...see you all in the frozen hot chamber of icy pleasure...
http://www.myspace.com/automelodi
Pieter, Xavier, and Pre-Op Trans Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday March 24th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Tearist at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
17 March 2010
This week WIERD welcomes the return of Further Reductions to the weekly party for a live performance at midnight! Katie and Shawn are wrapping up their forthcoming debut EP due out on Dark Entries Records in San Francisco later this year and new single on Captured Tracks, so come on out and hear many of the band's new songs for the first time! Also tonite should be quite a lovely evening indeed as we are celebrating the birthdays of our far beyond belovedly lovely Ms. Very rErin Sharpe and the frozen cold majesty himself M.Canterel, free entry for all who come raring gifts of Serge modular knockoffs and lusciously cold, obscure Indian oil pigments ready for pleasure!:
http://www.myspace.com/furtherreductions
The WIERD is back in the Home Sweet World this week after an excellent week long soujourn in France and the Netherlands, thanks to all our long time friends who came out to the Xeno & Oaklander/Frank(just Frank) shows in Paris and Rotterdam, special VRegards to Jean-Francois Sanz of Agnes b. and the great Kris Horvers for helping organize the concerts at Social Club and WORM. For all who missed out, X&O will be back on the continent for a full UK/European tour with Led Er Est next month, we will have a full tour schedule up in the coming week.
WIERD will be hosting a European tour send off for both bands at The Market Hotel in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Friday, April 9th:
Xeno & Oaklander, Led Er Est, Claps(Minneapolis, MN) , Epee du Bois
with DJs: Pieter and Caleb(Sacred Bones)
The Market Hotel
1142 Myrtle Ave @ Broadway, BKNY
Doors 8pm/$7
The official UK and Italian release parties are all set for the forthcoming 'Wierd Presents:' historical compilation out next week March 22nd on Angular Records, the fliers and line-ups for these concerts in London and Rome are below:
Friday March 26th:
Cocodisco and Angular Records Present The Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Launch Party Featuring:
Luke Eargoggle(live/Sweden), Elliot(live/Sweden), Alalal, Chris Flatline, with Cocodisco DJs
Alibi
91 Kingsland High St.
London E8 2PB
9pm-3am/Free
Friday April 2nd:
Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Italian Release Party! Featuring:
Frank(just Frank)(live/France), Soviet Soviet(live/Rome), with DJs Newclear Waves(Mannequin records, Rome) + many more!
Locanda Atlantide
Via Dei Lucani 22, San Lorenza
Rome, Italy
Doors 10pm/8 Euros
Frankie Teardrop, Samuel kK, and Owen Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday, March 17th 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Further Redusctions at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
12 February 2010
The London and Rome release parties are all set for the forthcoming 'Wierd Presents: Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics' compilation on Angular!
3 March 2010
Tonite the LA minimal synth invasion continues as WIERD is proud to welcome our good friends DJ Sarah Stinson and the whole crew from the great KILLING SPREE Party in Hollywood, featuring the pride of minimal electronic California FRANK ALPINE for their first ever NYC live performance at midnite! Rich and Quinn put on one of the most charismatically chilling shows we witnessed all of last year when they joined us on stage for their debut at the Wierd Festival in Los Angeles back in November, and tonite they will be playing an entirely new set of trax from their forthcoming LP due out on WIERD later this year which they are currently in the studio recording! And tonite Rich is indeed bringing the icy vox, so prepare to climb Mt. Alpine higher than ever before...VR.
http://www.myspace.com/frankalpine
As far the past week's very Rare news of the WIERD, both the BBC and the NME in London reviewed of the forthcoming 'Wierd Presents:' historical compilation out on Angular March 22nd:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/md3q
A new Epee du Bois live performance video from last week's party is online now courtesy of Jimi Patterson!:
This coming Friday evening Sarah of Killing Spree will be teaming up with the WIERD and another long time VRiend of ours the ever elusive The Drk Mrk for a fantasic evening of minimal electronic music at Cameo in Brooklyn, where Mr. Alpin will be joined by Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est!:
Friday, March 5th
Xeno & Oaklander
Led Er Est
Frank Alpine
Kordan
with DJs Black Rainbow and The Drk Mrk
Cameo Gallery
93 N. 6th St., Wmsbg/BKNY
Doors 9pm/$8
http://www.myspace.com/cameogallery
Lastly, the first Wierd Records compilation (3xLP, 1x7'', + book) is now back in stock after being Very Rare for quite some time: ORDER IT HERE
Glenn, Black Rainbow, and Veryrarealyn Spin the WIERD Cold Wave Los Angeles!
Wednesday March 3rd, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare NYC Live Performance debut by Frank Alpine at midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey
Info:(212)226-5708
